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MikeyMike
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« on: June 26, 2008, 09:44:36 PM » |
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*help Mikhail... said:
some quick assistance on reinstalling windows please
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Linosal says:
?
*help Mikhail... says:
Alright
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I have this friend right, and his PC is going emo for now for some reason
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started like 2 days ago, everything is hella slow
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SO I figured I'd go over there and reisntall his windows xp
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I put the damn CD in, set the bios or wth its called to boot from the CD, everything is smooth it starts loading some random crap like kernel.ddl, and then when it gives me options to fix the pc using the recovery console or to press enter to continue, no button i press works and it just turns off in 5 secs.
Linosal says:
pc turn off?
*help Mikhail... says:
Yea
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It just goes off like I unplugged it.
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I gave it other 20 tries with 2 different versions, one with like sp2 and one with sp3, both dont work and both break on the same part.
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Any other way to reinstall a windows? Or anything that you think that I could do to fix this crap?
Linosal says:
spontanious reboot
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how much ram
*help Mikhail... says:
eh
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He had a 512 stick in there and a 256
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then later it wouldnt boot up windows at all
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I changed the ram sticks around
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it worked
Linosal says:
eh
*help Mikhail... says:
then next time it didnt work again
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then I took the 256 out
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and it worked again
Linosal says:
try only 1 ram modul
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and i told him to never turn it off
Linosal says:
lol
*help Mikhail... says:
Well I'm outta his house right now
*help Mikhail... says:
but I'll try that later
*help Mikhail... says:
weird thing is, is that it was fine like 2 days ago
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and now its al lemo
Linosal says:
sounds like hardware issue
Linosal says:
memory, possibly hdd
*help Mikhail... says:
And, after you know when I said it wouldnt run the windows
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it would blink and htere was a blue screen
*help Mikhail... says:
it was all in korean though but I imagine it would be similar to what I used to get
*help Mikhail... says:
some memory leak or something sort
Basically, read that and you'll know whats happening.
I don't know what to do and I need a solution as soon as tomorrow.
Please help and ty.
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MikeyMike
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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2008, 10:09:14 PM » |
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WOW
u guys are sooo friggin helpful.... 8 views...are u guys just lazy or do u actually not know?
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linosal
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« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2008, 11:04:48 PM » |
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heh i already told u i suspect its a hardware issue ..
check each mem stick 1 at a time, also unplug the hdd see if you still get the random shutdown (one change at a time)
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MikeyMike
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« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2008, 11:17:23 PM » |
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Alright, will do.
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Joex
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« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2008, 01:15:09 AM » |
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wheres my picxor  |
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« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2008, 03:32:18 AM » |
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Er... guys not to try and make u feel dumb but...
If you cant use the keyboard during dos, its likely the keyboard is connected via usb, in which case you need to enable usb legacy support in the bios before you reinstall windows.
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MikeyMike
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2008, 07:42:15 AM » |
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Naw bro, it just reboots without a warning.
I don't get to choose anything. If it just stood there and it wouldn't take any of the keys I press then it would be another story.
This is annoying me .. D:
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« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2008, 12:25:29 PM » |
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Ok, i know from past issues from the same thing happening to me.
It is going to be a hardware issue.
I messed with the ram just like you did also.
But here is what happened. After a few days of messing with all this crap, i started looking at the mother board real close.
I noticed, compositors on the board having some small swelling going on, and some smaller one with small leaks.
The pc would shut off at random, also sound would go out and other things happening as well.
So look at this real close, also look at the video card and any other boards in the pc.
This means disassemble it and get in there and look.
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linosal
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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2008, 11:37:42 PM » |
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Lab: capacitors  And yes this is a possibility but not as high as the ram being bad.. Mikey have you tested any of this stuff yet? |
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« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2008, 07:20:48 AM » |
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you could always use a ram checker prog i guess, its like a boot disk, stick it in, turn pc on, let it run, it will check every part of the ram for stability.
Of course, as well as that, it could just be something minor like abit of dust, so like lab said, take it all apart inspect it real close.
My pc also used to restart randomly, found a stray unused wire, underneath the motherboard, which was creating a connection between that and the casing, causes a short, and it would turn off or restart.
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linosal
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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2008, 02:00:35 PM » |
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heh. .. I have noticed if I hit my front usb connectors a certain way it seems to kill my video and lock my pc .. thats harsh |
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MikeyMike
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« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2008, 03:01:09 PM » |
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Alright, I installed the windows, now randomly it would tell me that the video driver failed to load in a blue screen and rebooted.
So after I swapped the rams again and put in the one that I thought was broken, and voila it works for now.
Installed everything and it seems to be working fine.
Something is seriously screwed up in there. I'm thinking its the video card.
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linosal
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« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2008, 07:10:18 PM » |
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swapping ram broke the vidcard?
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MikeyMike
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« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2008, 11:58:59 PM » |
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I don't know what the hell is wrong, but I know that randomly switching the ram sticks seems to let the PC boot up.
And then if I don't switch it, it gives me failed video driver error.
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« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2008, 03:17:11 AM » |
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Mikey, it really sounds like a ram issue. whether the ram is messed up somewhere in a sector, or whether theres dust in the slots i dont know, but it def sounds like a ram issue.
Take them out completely, blow any dust out of the slots, even check the ran on the video card to see if its burnt out.
Reason why i say this, is obviously your pc holds some ram back for the video card, and the video card prob has onboard ram also, from everything you been sayin, it sounds like a ram issue of some sort.
Download a ram checker prog like i mentioned, and run it at boot up.
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